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Blog Week 7
Okey-dokey! Time for stage two of my shamelessly self-abosrbed rant :D !
Stage 2. The infrastructure. This is probably the most make-or-break period of any idea - the part where one sees if it has wings. It's the part where one tries to find a plot which works with the basic thematic concept and, more importantly, do interesting characters spring to mind. I find this stage rather like a forming solar system. If the idea is coming together I feel a great but vague cloud of stuff growing, characters, plot points, specific scenes, little bits of character interaction, and these start to spin and whirl and weave and colide with each other. Out of this, hopefully the rough-hewn idea for the story starts to grow, themes can be established around the characters one has created and it all becomes very exciting. But in this stage, there is a problem. It all stays fairly fluid and vague. For me, there is a limit to the amount of fuzzy thinking that I can do before, usually as soon as the character set and plot beginning and end are set, I have to get down to some more serious planning - the subject of next week's discussion!
Stage 2. The infrastructure. This is probably the most make-or-break period of any idea - the part where one sees if it has wings. It's the part where one tries to find a plot which works with the basic thematic concept and, more importantly, do interesting characters spring to mind. I find this stage rather like a forming solar system. If the idea is coming together I feel a great but vague cloud of stuff growing, characters, plot points, specific scenes, little bits of character interaction, and these start to spin and whirl and weave and colide with each other. Out of this, hopefully the rough-hewn idea for the story starts to grow, themes can be established around the characters one has created and it all becomes very exciting. But in this stage, there is a problem. It all stays fairly fluid and vague. For me, there is a limit to the amount of fuzzy thinking that I can do before, usually as soon as the character set and plot beginning and end are set, I have to get down to some more serious planning - the subject of next week's discussion!
Blog Week 8
Well, it's been another week (watching far too much Olympics lol) and so far I have received no response from the agents over my book :( ! I guess it was inevitable that things would take longer with it being the summer and so I'm staying cheerful and hopeful of a positive response! I've also been taking a week off writing - the plot needs some work and I have been mulling heavily over that! Now, back to my regularly scheduled programme!
Stage 3. The planning. Planning is a strange thing to me because the truth is that I find that I cannot complete it until I have nearly finished writing the novel. It's a costant process, inventing and arranging the scenes and solidifying up what I want to do with plot, characters and themes but one thing I always finds helps is a tip I learned off the internet. Write the scenes down on card. That way you need to hold less in your head and can arrange and rearrange to your heart's content. Scene cards rule!
Stage 3. The planning. Planning is a strange thing to me because the truth is that I find that I cannot complete it until I have nearly finished writing the novel. It's a costant process, inventing and arranging the scenes and solidifying up what I want to do with plot, characters and themes but one thing I always finds helps is a tip I learned off the internet. Write the scenes down on card. That way you need to hold less in your head and can arrange and rearrange to your heart's content. Scene cards rule!
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